Facebook

Technology for Teaching English Lab

Eng. Tahani Z. Fourah 1

Facebook

Contents

• Creating an Account

• Basic Privacy Controls

• Account settings

• Creating your society

• Sharing information with others

• Facebook Timeline

• Other Features in Facebook



• Creating an Account

It is the first step to join Facebook social network. Creating an account is

considered as creating an unique identity for you on the network including

your name, birthday, password, email..ect.

These information should help others to find and identify you on the network.

To create your own account, follow the instructions in the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/help/createaccount

Lab Task:

Create a new account on Facebook if you don't have an account.

• Basic Privacy Controls

After creating your account, you should adjust your privacy on the network.

Otherwise, the network should assign a public privacy policy for you by

default. This means that your account will be visible and searchable for

everyone on the network. Leaving your account as is indicates that you are not

realizing the natural of social network environment. To set your privacy

controls, follow the instructions in the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/help/privacy/basic-controls

Lab Task:

Set your privacy controls to hide your basic info such as your email,

birthday,…ect, except for your friends.

• Account settings

After creating your account, you may need to adjust your account settings

such as changing your Name, Username, Email, Password, and Language.

Also you can edit Security, Notifications, Mobile, Apps and Payments

settings. To set your account settings, follow the instructions in the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/help/account-settings-and-deletion

Lab Task:

Set your Facebook account language to Arabic and switch it back to your

preferable language.



• Creating your society

The main idea behind any social network is building up relationships between

people. These could be identical reflection of the real relationships, or just

electronic online relationships.

To build up your own society by finding your friends, adding them, or

deleting/blocking them, follow the instructions in the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/help/friends

Lab Task:

Find and add me (Tahani Fourah) on Facebook.

• Sharing information with others

It is not just about creating a society; Social Networking is about sharing

knowledge with others. Facebook invents a new term to represent sharing

knowledge through the network. This term is called a wall. To know more

about wall, visit the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/help/profile

To help users sharing knowledge among each others, Facebook social network

provides them with four communication and sharing tools:

o Post

Posting on the wall is the only way to create a new material on

Facebook. You may add the following information on the post:

� Who are with you?

� Where are you?

� Audience who will see the post

o Share

If you want to share others' posts, click share which is found below the

post.

o Comment

If you want to comment on others' posts, click comment which is

found below the post.

o Like

If you want to express your admiration on a post, click like which is

found below the post.

Lab Task:

In cooperation with one of your friends, Post a proverb on your wall, and set

the audience to Friends of Friends.



• Facebook Timeline

One of the recent features added to Facebook, The Timeline is considered one

of the greatest tools to update your status, view and add photos, Jump to

stories from your past, and View a log of your Facebook activity. By the time,

your timeline represents your historical activities on the network.

To learn how to use your timeline, follow the instructions in the link below:

https://www.facebook.com/help/?page=329522390442844

Lab Task:

Change your cover photo to represent something related to Technology for

Teaching English course.

• Explore other Features by yourself

o News Feed and Home:

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/newsfeed

o Chat:

For more information,


o Messages

For more information,


o Groups:

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/groups

o Pages

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/pages

o Events:

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/events

o Photos:

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/photos

o Videos:

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/videos

o Tagging

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/tagging

o Links:

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/links

o Questions:

For more information, https://www.facebook.com/help/facebook-

questions

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